Bill Hybels Leader Quotations

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.